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I don't have specific links to point to these, but here are my votes from this year's offerings:
1) Cleaning trolley for organizing/moving cleaning supplies & tools.
I'm not raising a future hotel maid!!! (Yes, my daughter has a toy Dyson vacuum she plays with.)
2) Toy tattoo gun.
Yes, not the lick-em-and-stick-em temporary tattoos, but a toy version of the gun used to put on real ones. My own opinion on real tattoos notwithstanding (*cough*, *tramp stamp*, *cough*), where is the need to introduce a toy version of a real tool which involves a needle, blood, and permanent disfiguration? The kids want tattoos, stick with the food coloring stick on ones!
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Of course in looking back, I can cite the Mattel "ThingMaker" I had which included an electric hot plate, water (electricity and water make a good combo for 8 year olds!), and highly toxic goo to bake. Or the VacuForm toy which involved handling molten plastic. I got burned a lot as a kid... Thanks, Mom! My uncle says when he was 8, he made toy soldiers using real molten lead! I still have some of those he made.
Kinda makes that Red Ryder BB Gun ("You'll put your eye out, kid!") seem tame by comparison!
Anybody else have "favorites", either on shelves now or from your past?
Well... let's see... at the risk of dating myself terribly, I remember the laundry set that came with a real iron that plugged in and got hot (my mom cut the cord off of it after the millionth burn). The wood burning set was a hit... you can set many household items aflame with these (and the cat will never come near you again). I had a chemistry set (not the "safe and sane" ones they have now... mine had real carbolic (sp?) acid in it). The icing on the cake was the pregnancy Barbie - you pushed a button on her back and her tummy grew. Oh... almost forgot... I also had a bartending set (similiar to a play kitchen would be now, only you got to bar tend).
Well... let's see... at the risk of dating myself terribly, I remember the laundry set that came with a real iron that plugged in and got hot (my mom cut the cord off of it after the millionth burn). The wood burning set was a hit... you can set many household items aflame with these (and the cat will never come near you again). I had a chemistry set (not the "safe and sane" ones they have now... mine had real carbolic (sp?) acid in it). The icing on the cake was the pregnancy Barbie - you pushed a button on her back and her tummy grew. Oh... almost forgot... I also had a bartending set (similiar to a play kitchen would be now, only you got to bar tend).
Good time people... good times
I think the bartending set is the worst one, especially when you consider food play sets are geared towards 5 year olds! I can't imagine a child mixing martinis and margaritas.
Ok, the dog eating poop is definitely on the weird side. My friend pointed out that there are baby dolls that really pee. I told her the baby dolls don't drink their own pee after they finish!
My friend pointed out that there are baby dolls that really pee.
I had one of the early versions of that doll. You gave the doll her bottle with tap water in it and it came out the back end almost immediately. (It wasn't exactly anatomically correct.) My mother was always urging me to hold the doll over her beloved philodendron plant. Waste not, want not.
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